Another One Bites The Dust: J.T. Floyd to Miss Remainder of the 2010 Season With Ankle Injury

I’m not a superstitious person at all, but it’s as if there’s a curse on the Michigan football program right now. I’m wondering whether some UM business school grad isn’t working at some bank in northern California, refusing a mortgage loan modification request from some introverted Gypsy woman, who in response curses the UM alum and the entire Michigan football program to death in 3 years (3 days)?

Well, go see the movie Drag Me to Hell! I really enjoy Sam Raimi’s stuff.

I’ve been watching Michigan football since I was 5 years old. I don’t ever remember Michigan’s roster being so decimated by player attrition and injury. This is the kind of stuff that used to happen to Northwestern under Rick Venturi and Dennis Green, or to Illinois under Lou Tepper, or to Wisconsin under Don Morton. Remember Don Morton? Well, nobody remembers that guy.

This just doesn’t happen to Michigan.

This has never happened before at Michigan. Not for Bo. Not for Mo. Not for Lloyd. It never happened for RR at WVU either. There were always players, talented ones, stepping up and back filling. This is a very rare situation and I’d normally say we’re unlikely to see it ever again.

But the way recruiting and player attrition is going for RR right now, I think there is a chance this depleted roster situation could linger and drag on to next year. There’s just not enough play makers on the roster right now. Rodriguez succeeded in shoring up QB, OL and RB well enough in 2 years, I think. But the depth chart at DL, LB and secondary is now at Level Red.

Somehow I want to say this is not Rodriguez’s fault or responsibility. But this is football. From his own lips come words like “we want at least two we can win with”. I believe Rodriguez did apply this motto when recruiting last year – and thank Christ he did because even though some key players never qualified, can we at least acknowledge that Michigan would be starting all walk ons in the secondary against Illinois if it were not for Avery, Christian and Talbott. The losses of Warren, S. Brown, Woolfolk, Mike Williams, Justin Turner, Brandon Smith, Cissoko, JT Floyd, and the spectacular flameouts of highly praised prospects like V. Emilien, A. Witty and D. Dorsey… it’s too much. I don’t care if you’re Bo, Tressel, Nick Saban, or Urban Meyer, that’s a lot to overcome.

But it’s not an excuse! Oh no, we’re done with excuse making. We’re Michigan. We’re different , such circumstances do not apply to UM. It’s not supposed to happen here.

UNACCEPTABLE!!!!